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again as only fragments of earth remain despite the guide judging the planet mostly harmless my only other immersion in science fiction has been to dip occasionally into the seemingly endless star wars saga it kicked off in the mid 1970s with an intrepid trio leaving their familiar lives behind and dedicating themselves to overthrowing the fascist empire that controlled the galaxy all space heroes it seems are called upon to leave home for various reasons in one of the opening scenes princess leia kidnapped by the storm troopers is forced to watch while her home planet is blown up meanwhile growing up on a dull planet with no prospects except farming luke skywalker feels the jedi stirrings in his blood and must depart to the dismay of his adoptive parents and then there s han solo a loner as his name implies originally a self serving smuggler who evolves from his neutral stance to a fighter while falling in love with the princess they all battle hard but that happy ending keeps eluding them since the evil empire never quite dies although conquered militarily it refashions itself into the first order meanwhile it s touch and go whether ben solo the son of han and leia will end up on the right side budget analyst in space begins with earth descending into a holy mess on many fronts while the technology for escaping on spaceships and possibilities for terra forming other planets are evolving at lightning speed travelers are taking to space in large numbers first establishing outposts on the moon and mars unsatisfied with the limitations of these places they set their sights on promising looking planets in deeper space janie the budget analyst of the title has been an aspiring science fiction writer since girlhood now 25 years old she finds herself working in a martian administrative office that produces funding plans for space colonization she also reviews applications for immigration from earth including a few from people she clashed with back home then personal disaster strikes while helping to stage an experimental piece for the first martian theatre she accidentally kills her estranged husband in a stunt gone bad this sets the stage for another possible trope a fugitive in space not trusting to martian justice to find her innocent janie boards a starship headed for the alpha centauri system her companions on this journey have diverse goals of their own some are on a scientific mission to uncover wormholes or grapple with the space time continuum others are searching for answers in the spiritual realm i couldn t quite conjure up a happy ending for this group will humans ever find what they re looking for when they take to deep space and if they encounter aliens will these be friend or foe that question becomes crucial when a huge meteor threatens the spacecraft and a powerful laser comes out of nowhere to zap the threat into harmless dust was this done by unknown creatures in friendship or as a demonstration of how they could also zap the intruders at any time in the wake of this rescue the voyagers begin to entertain strange visions of departed loved ones janie finds herself making love to her phantom ex husband from whom she seeks forgiveness it s perhaps a glimpse of what heaven or nirvana would be like but is it worth possibly dying for i leave that question up in the air so to speak lgould171784 chicklit science fiction self publishing uncategorized 2 comments july 10 2026 4 minutes what would the founders think with the biggest birthday bash in the nation s history fast approaching those of us who are at all historically minded can t help but wonder if the founding fathers could magically spring back to life what would they say about our present situation what has become of the democracy they envisioned 250 years ago and what would they make of donald trump we can only wonder which of the founders trump would choose to meet with during this time travel summit given his almost total ignorance of american history flawed as these men were they all possessed a certain character and courage that would baffle the current president they were fashioning a brave experiment in government knowing they were committing treason against the british crown and could be hanged for it if they fell into enemy hands general george washington faced adversities on the battlefield that cadet bone spurs never imagined in his cosseted life understanding the true wages of war i can imagine him taking trump to task for his whimsical military adventures washington s successor john adams would have done the same he declined to go to war against france at a time when such a move would have been popular it may well have cost him reelection but he insisted long afterward that making peace was the best decision he ever made the founders seemed to realize that democracy would always be fragile given human nature there would always be wannabe dictators with the ability to gather a dangerous number of followers they tried to put safeguards in the constitution and the bill of rights intended to make the executive branch strong enough to accomplish much but limited in vital ways if trump were at all interested in the concept of separation of powers which i doubt he would ask james madison alexander hamilton and john jay co authors of the federalist papers to explain it i m guessing this dynamic writing trio would be alarmed to observe that these days the other two branches the legislative and judicial aren t really doing enough to reign in the executive and they also knew their vision of democracy would depend on an informed electorate which is also questionable these days i can hear trump claiming moral superiority if someone clues him in that four of the first five presidents were enslavers but at least one of them might point out that trump s administration has squandered that advantage by scrubbing the most brutal realities of slavery from museums and monuments and even trying to pass it off as some sort of huge job training program washington and adams would surely throw their support behind the no kings movement once washington was done fighting the revolutionary war he indignantly turned down a serious offer to become king of the new republic as for adams who served as an envoy in both england and france he and especially mrs adams criticized the gaudiness and meaningless pageantry of royalty a man who lived simply most of his life he would turn up his nose at the tackiness of trump s white house decorations and his attempted city wide renovations even when they clashed as they often did the founders maintained a certain respect for one another given what they had all been through adams and thomas jefferson became close friends when they first served abroad but later fell out when they were contending for the presidency representing the opposing federalist and democratic republican parties jefferson as adams s successor gets credit for abolishing what was perhaps adams s worst mistake the alien and sedition acts four controversial laws that come off as alarmingly trump like among other things these laws made it easier to deport immigrants criminalized many forms of dissent against the ruling federalist party and especially targeted journalists what s wrong with that trump would undoubtedly exclaim the current president would definitely request a sit down with benjamin franklin the model of a 18 th century bon vivant he would demand to know what tricks franklin pulled to get his image on the 100 bill since he contemplates slapping his own mug on an even bigger denomination he would be licking his chops to pick the brain of alexander hamilton whose credentials include serving as the first secretary of the treasury and as a co founder of the first bank of the united states trump would appreciate hamilton s advocacy for a strong executive and his efforts to put the nation on a stronger financial footing but the ghost hamilton would surely warn the president about taking political disagreements too far it was idiotic of him to get shot in a duel with aaron burr no matter how much of a jerk burr was if that duel were to be reenacted i m guessing trump would root for burr although the episode ruined his reputation how could trump not love this maverick s plot to invade mexico combine it with western territories and declare himself emperor of a new country it s worth noting that adams and jefferson after years of animosity renewed their friendship late in life through a cordial exchange of letters maybe this was possible because they recognized each other s contributions to the great cause and never resorted to name calling making up malicious nicknames is one of trump s signature skills but his jibes aren t particularly clever just childish it s probably useless to speculate whether he would ever mellow if he were to become an ex president for good there is a proper way of taking off that mantle and moving on and many have done so graciously but i doubt trump is capable of that how could he accept the life long moniker of mr president when your majesty is the one he craves lgould171784 american politics federal government self publishing uncategorized 2 comments june 29 2026 4 minutes when they were young overtaken by one of those waves of nostalgia that come with aging i finally got around to downloading ron howard s 2016 documentary eight days a week aptly named after a particularly catchy early beatles song the film covers the british quartet s touring years when they were still young fresh faces as we now know all too well they were never as innocent as they looked they had grown up musically and in other ways while playing the tough clubs of hamburg germany a few years later touring the world gave them endless exposure to groupies and partying the true innocents were those of us who worshiped them at a distance the film opens with the boys playing one of their greatest early hits she loves you to a crowd of screaming fans mostly girls that is a song guaranteed to give me a shot of youthful exuberance whenever i listen to it on youtube it has an unusual twist for a love song giving a hint of the complexities that the group will prove capable of later on it s the usual puppy love lament but spoken by a third party to urge a friend with perhaps a bit of understated jealousy to pursue the girl who loves him you know you should be glad this unselfish friend admonishes the documentary then cuts to scenes of the beatles arrival in america in 1964 and their first encounters with a horde of press they throw out continuous zingers that demonstrate their unique liverpudlian wit but their most striking reaction is amazement at their success they simply can t belive the ruckus they re causing at new york s jfk airport and a few days later in washington dc scenes of the frantic touring years 1963 1966 are interspersed with glimpses of world events during that time jfk s assassination civil rights marches nuclear testing as time goes on the musicians seem to get jaded along with the rest of us the songs of rubber soul and revolver get more complicated and less conducive to live performance the tours ended after 1966 which had been a particularly brutal stretch they had faced bible belt anger in the us after lennon gave the infamous magazine interview in which he equated the beatles popularity with that of jesus another mishap occurred in the philippines where they inadvertently stood up the first lady imelda marcos and nearly got pummeled while trying to leave the country they were lucky to get out of that tour alive it was the end of even make believe innocence they began to take up independent projects and pursue new relationships and then came the cataclysm or the beginnings of one yoko ono entered the scene splitting the historic john lennon in half the pre yoko lennon and post yoko lennon are almost two different people h e met her at a london art gallery in 1966 where she was putting on an exhibit of what was called concept art it s not the kind of art you can hang on a wall you have to strive to understand it sometimes by participating in it it dawned on john heretofore a first class misogynist that a woman could be as smart and creative as he was after a while he decided that life with his comparatively conventional wife and son in a london suburb was too humdrum once yoko wormed her way into the recording studio the love besotted john convinced himself that he was bored with the band as well it s perhaps not fair to blame yoko entirely for the breakup that was set in motion the boys in the band were ready to grow up in their own ways she was more a symbol of that growth than the cause but something was lost for us fans lennon took on a stringy haired gaunt look possibly the result of the new pair exploring heroin together eventually they moved to new york where yoko had launched her early artistic career and involved themselves in far left politics thankfully that phase didn t last long not only did john s rather naïve activism threaten to get him deported but the songs he produced as political screeds were easily the weakest of his career a few years later after a separation john and yoko got back together produced a son and appeared to retire from the music business yoko looked after the family investments while john became a self declared househusband that was something of a myth contradicted by many other sources but this new persona served to take the pressure off him to produce new music until he was ready the comeback album he and yoko released in 1980 double fantasy was later denounced as something of a fraud by a radio interviewer who helped them promote it he confessed to feeling duped when he realized their renewed love story was not as idyllic as they claimed it was and then came the assassination which yoko failed to prevent despite the army of mystics that she had hired to serve as her advisors have the beatles aged well their music lives forever on youtube for us baby boomers to relive and younger generations to embrace paul and ringo the surviving members are rocking and rolling to this day paul at almost 84 took the brave step of performing live on the recent season finale of saturday night live apart from a little trouble with the high notes he did fine there never was a true reunion of the group after 1969 although rumors were always flying in recent years a couple of new songs were manufactured by technology based on tapes that john left behind but that doesn t reduce my nostalgia for the days when the group was still together in the flesh making unforgettable music and i don t mind admitting i m mostly nostalgic for the pre yoko john lgould171784 rock and roll self publishing uncategorized 2 comments june 18 2026 4 minutes the post and me who is this 62 year old bald guy named jeff bezos and what gives him the right to demolish my newspaper okay i ll admit that my indignation is fairly comical it s his paper not 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